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Japanese No one named Remington appears in the Bible. Remington is an English surname taken from Rimington, a village in Lancashire whose Old English name means “settlement on the Riming,” a stream that marked a boundary. As a first name it owes its fame to the Remington firearms and typewriter company.
What does Remington mean in the Bible?
The Bible gives Remington no meaning, because the name is not in it. It has no Hebrew or Greek form and no Hebrew meaning; it comes from English words and an English place, recorded long after Scripture was written.
The one link runs through the man who made the name famous. Eliphalet Remington, founder of the Remington company, had a first name taken from the Old Testament. Eliphalet is the King James Version’s spelling of Eliphelet, one of the sons born to King David in Jerusalem (2 Samuel 5:14–16; 1 Chronicles 14:7). The Hebrew name means “my God is deliverance.”
Where does the name Remington come from?
Rimington lies in the Ribble Valley of Lancashire, near the old border with Yorkshire, in whose West Riding it historically stood. Its name joins the name of a stream, the Riming, to Old English tūn, “enclosure, farmstead, settlement.” The stream’s name comes from Old English rima, “rim, edge, border,” so the Riming was a boundary stream. Families from the place took its name as a surname, spelled Rimington, Rimmington or Remington.
Why is Remington a famous name?
Eliphalet Remington (1793–1861) was 23 when he made a flintlock rifle at his father’s forge in upstate New York in 1816. The business that grew from it, E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, New York, became one of the oldest gunmakers in the United States. In 1873 the company agreed to manufacture a typewriter developed by Christopher Latham Sholes and his partners, and on 1 July 1874 it put the machine on the market. Sold as the Remington No. 1, it was the first commercially successful typewriter, and its keyboard had essentially the QWERTY layout still used today.
The typewriter business later became Remington Rand, which began making electric shavers in 1937. The Remington brand is still used for shavers, hair clippers and hair dryers.
When did Remington become a first name?
Behind the Name notes that parents may give the name in honor of Eliphalet Remington or his sons. It first entered the list of the 1,000 most common names for American boys in 1983, the year after the television detective series Remington Steele began on NBC. It has been in the list every year since 1989, rose steadily after 2009, and reached 227th place in 2019; it ranked 307th in 2025. Girls have been named Remington often enough to reach the top 1,000 every year since 2014, and in 2025 it ranked 511th for girls.
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